Language
George Herbert
Who says that fictions only and false hair
Thomas Gray
Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
Oliver Goldsmith
The very pink of perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn?
W. S. Gilbert
She may very well pass for forty-three
There’s a fascination frantic
Thomas Fuller
Light (God’s eldest daughter) is a principal beauty in building.
T. S. Eliot
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
John Dryden
Fairest Isle, all isles excelling.
John Donne
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
Walter de la Mare
Slowly, silently, now the moon
E. E. Cummings
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
Noël Coward
The Stately Homes of England,
Geoffrey Chaucer
And she was fayr as is the rose in May.
And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene,
Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Robert Burns
See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
O, my Luve’s like a red, red rose
O saw ye bonnie Lesley,
Robert Browning
O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird.
All her hair
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.
Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,